[who_would_fardels_bear]

Of course there will always be humans in space, and I have no problem with private corporations shooting people into space.

But if we want government to do the most with the least amount of money, then I say limit NASA to probes and robots.

Let SpaceX, Virgin Galactic, etc. spend their money putting 0g-hating, non-cosmic-ray-proof bags of mostly water into space.

[mcshot]

No it’s limit NASA to launching Muslims on one way self-esteem voyages

[marktwain]

“Of course there will always be humans in space, and I have no problem with private corporations shooting people into space.

But if we want government to do the most with the least amount of money, then I say limit NASA to probes and robots.”

The moon is a great place to set up a base. Have the government let out contracts for private contractors to deliver supplies there.

We are bound to get some profit making stuff out of that. Think how useful it will be to be able to fabricate things on the moon, in near earth orbit, or at the L5 point.

I long to see an earth orbit based private Internet service that cannot be shut down by government decreee - maybe we can call it, whimsically, SkyNet.

But one great potenial for private enterprise in space is freemarket communication that is encrypted and not censored.